Concrete in Australia VolVol 39 No 1 7
Concrete Compression Machines to suit all requirements
The new COMPACT-Line
compression testers; a
comprehensive range of European
made machines conformng to
Australian, EN and ASTM-AASHTO
Standards in three different series:
• AUTOMAX, SUPER
AUTOMATIC MACHINES
(PC and display controlled)
• PILOT, AUTOMATIC
MACHINES
(Display controlled)
• DIGIMIX, SEMI-AUTOMATIC
MACHINES
(Display controlled)
Contact Geo-Con
for more details
Telephones: (07) 3265 4952 or (02) 4384 5760
Email:
sales@geo-con.com.au
Web:
www.geo-con.com.au
Capacities range
from 1500kN
up to 5000kN
Honorary membership awarded
Professor Vijaya Rangan has received a
medal and certi cate of his Honorary
Status of the Concrete Institute of
Australia at an event in Perth late last
year. He has provided an outstanding
contribution to the eld of concrete
design and construction.
Rangan s career spans 50 years with
40 years being spent in Australia. His
early postings as a postdoctoral fellow
were to the Council of Scienti c and
Industrial Research Coimbatore, India
and the Indian Institute of Science. In
1970, he headed to the University of
NSW where he was lecturer then senior
lecturer of civil engineering until 1990.
Rangan then headed to Western
Australia to head up the School of
Engineering at Curtin University of
Technology, and in 2005 became the
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
and Computing. He is presently the
Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering
at Curtin University.
During his career, Rangan devoted
25 years to developing the Australian
Concrete Standard. He was an active
member of the Concrete Structures
standard committee starting from 1970s
for more than 25 years. His work in
shear design and other sections of the
code forms the cornerstone of the code,
and are still in use today. His pioneering
work in shear and torsion are among
the top in this eld.
Prof Vijaya Rangan (r) was presented with his honorary status at an event in Perth last year.